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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[rrOm our regular corre.poideut.l
WAsHINGTON, July 25th. lss

WASHINGTON, July 25th, 1887.
President aud Mrs. Cleveland, have
returned from their pleasant tour of
northern New York, looking and feel
ing all the better for the delightful out
ing and cordial reception throughout
the trip, but more especially, ut the
boyhood home of the President, where
his old friends and neighbors eagerly
thronged about him, glad to honor the
man, who had risen, like a meteor from
the humblest to the proudest and great
est position on earth, and who greeted
each and all with good word and a
kindly smile of recognition.
At the White House, it Is not yet
known what other summer plans the
President has arranged-Only the
Atlanta visit in October having been
positively decided upon but, | do not
think he can refuse assent to the inn
portunities of st. Louis, Louisville, and
other western cities.
Some alarm was felt at the White
House the other day at the discovery
that the laths and rafters, in the south
ern portico were decayed, and it was
thought that the mansion was in danger
of collapse, but an examination has
dispelled all fear, as only slight repairs
will be necessary to stay the defacing
hand OF. time. r %
learn that the Administration re-
CARDS with the liveliest satisfaction the
deliberations and nominations of the
Ohio Democrats, and, that the Presi-
dent feels that his course has been
substantially endorsed. - x
The receipts of the Post Office Depart!
ment for the third quarter of the last
fiscal year were $13,012, ,4S7; expendi-
lures, $13,272 sos; deficiency, S26O,021;
but the latter will perhaps be reduced
to about $4,000, by the receipt from
international money orders. A COM
parative statement of the business of
this Department for the first three
quarters of the years 1SS5-S6-S7, show
that the receipts have constantly and
largely increased and that there has
been a corresponding decrease in the
deficiency so that it is very probable
the, Post Office Department will be on a
selflsustaining basis in year or two. Z.
The count of the cash and securities
| in the Treasury which began two
months ago incidental to change Of
/ Treasures has been completed and
found correct to cent, with the excep-
ton of a deficiency of $40, though a
formal report will not be made, till next
week.
+ In reply to great. number of in
quiries, the Commissioner of Pensions
replies, that, under the Mexican Pen
sion Act, pensions can be paid from
the date Of the passage ofthe Act, Jan.
10Th, 1887, only when pensioners were
sixty-two years old previous to that
date; in the exceptions to this rule, the
payment will begin on the day when
the pensioner is So years of age, unless
in cases of dependence and disability:
The Secretary of the Interior has won
additional claim to the admiration of
the fair sex by the important ruling
that married women have the right to
enter and buy timber and stone lands
under the laws governing the sale of
such lands in several of the States and
InPFItArlno
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09

of humbling the King, that is, bring
tobacco still lower. If that be the
case, I hope it may result in good, by
inducing our people to plant less
and make it better. A man
can cultivate tobacco (say 7,OOO)
hills to the hand and make just as
much corn, wheat, oats, fodder, hay,
&C., as if he didn't plant a hill in to-
bacco. Now the tobacco buyers m
the towns of course should be allowed
TO make a profit on their purchases,
but they ought to be satisfied to let
the producer make a little for his labor
mot Kali the goose to get the egg, for
then, of course, he stops the breed.
Let the farmer have a little, and I will
insure he will scatter a little broad
cast, which can be picked up after
many days" / must confess I have
had for some years some serious
thoughts as to the tendency of the
times. What | am disposed to call
a gambling greed on the part of the
politicians of the present day for soft
beds, or feathered nests for themselves
and friends, regardless of their
country's good. When shall this state
of things cease, and u people come
down to honest realities, forgetting
self and hat cotton as htng?. And
just here let me say I bought a book
once-"Cotton is King"-and was
foolish enough to pay SIS for it after
reading it, was so much disguised with
it as to cast it in the fire. Now since
that day another king has raised his
head in my section, and [ will say
worse than cotton, his name is Tobacco,
and with his Observation-Disclosures
on crop time, will, l fear, ruin fnan-
cially many Of our people. When we
make tobacco the money crop, make
our meat and bread at home, SOW
clover and grass, have plenty milk and
butter and keep close up with honest
politicians, (moe0 don't understand me as
all are dishonest we will then have the
best country in the world, with God
loving and happy people.
Twill write you soon, when | con-
suit with my friends in regard to your
visit to Caswell. With many wishes
for the increase and success Of The
FARMER, I will close for this time.
Yours fraternally,
AZARIAH GRAVES.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, JUNE g., 1887.

the President to visit US? We believe
it could be easily done, as it would not
prolong his trip more than a few hours.
Gentlemen of the N. G. State Fair, will
you make an effort to get the President
to visit our Fair? We are going to repeat
this question until we get an answer.
Cedar Grove Club, in Forsyth county,
takes the initiative in calling for a grand
mass meeting and farmers dinner~at
Clinard's store on the last Saturday in
July and invites the cooperation of all
the clubs of Forsyth and adjoining coun-
ties in making it a grand affair. The club
also asks the various clubs to "speak OUT
through the columns Of THE PRoGREss1vE
FARMER. This is the way to move it and
we are ready to repeat anything the clubs
may say in its favor. So let us have it. We
have no hesitation in saying to all who
want>t TO- have a really good time, 90 to
that meeting. 1t will do you good-it
will do the county good-it will do each
member and each attendant good, and
better than all, it will do the cause good.
Let the clubs of the good county Of
Forsyth speak for themselves.
We see it stated that our Agricultur-
al Department is e~ndeavoring to secure
special rates on the various railroads lead
ing to this city, for such Of u farmers as
may wish to visit our Agricultural De-
partment, the Experiment Station and
the Experiment Farm, and we add, that
in the neal future, we hope also our
Agricultural College. We can cheerfully
testify that the railroads, as a rule, have
been liberal towards enterprises looking
to the advancement of our material in
~terests, and we hope those having the
matter in charge will be able to consunl-
mate an arrangement, which could but re-
suit in good to our farmers. They sup
port these institutions and they should be
better acquainted with the work they are
doing, andne~1nore -efffeetixe or satisfac-
tory~method can be devised thaff<he one
that would bring them here and let them
see for themselves. y
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
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1t is highly essential that farm
ing friends should keep we'll informed
as to the portion of burdens they bear
under the Government. They are the
hope and salvation of our country and
of all countries. Let the farmers be
behind hand let their fields be blight
ed and the whole people feel it in store
house and in basket and in pocket.
When the fields wave with plenty !;
when the gamers groan with the rich
products; when the returns of the
farmers are satisfactory because of
good prices, then the whole people re-
ceive the benefit and trade is brisk and
all faces wear a sunny smile and hope,
beams in the eye.
The farmers have not been treated
fairly by our Congress. The real pro-
ducers of the country and the support
of government, laws have been hostile
to their interests and they have been
for a quarter of a century systemati-
cally plucked to enrich the few. Their
pockets have been annually filled to
build factories and lordly mansions
and gorgeous furniture and splendid
equipage for the plethoric pentocrats
and insatiate monopolists. This is
the whole truth and nothing but the
whole truth. In our issue of the 18th
ult., we gave instructive figures from
a careful economist showing how the
farmers fare in the hands of protec-
tionists.- Wilmington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
For THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
THE TWO KINGS.
ASHLAND, CAswELL Co.,
@Ao1 ~
= June /. 1887. .

June l, 1887. ~
lGlad to hear of the convention pro-
posed in Atlanta lido hope l shall
be able to go. Alb&hat is wanting is
for the farmers to- stand firm, and I
think our country will come out all
right.J Crippled and oppressed as
agriculture seems to be at the present
time, when agriculture prospers every
other legitimate business is on the rise,
for that is the cornerstone of every
other prosperity. Rings and monopo-
lies are playing sad havoc with the
prosperity Of our country. There are,
and always have been, some silly people
in the world who are trying to array
the towns against the country and the
country against the towns. Now for
that class, / am at q loss to find the
word suited to express my indignar
ton. They are certainly aiding to
make a stick to break their own heads
each can be of great advantage to
the other when they work for their
mutual benefit. The country can get
along without the town, but how
can the town get on without the
country? Now some say, that the
moneyed men in towns and cities have
their money in their boxes and vaults,
waiting a little longer for the purpose
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
PROVISIONS FOR AN OCEAN
STEAMER.

The amount of provisions, groceries,
etc, on board an Atlantic steamer at
the time Of sailing is very large. For
a single passage to the westward, one
of our most noted steamers, with SAT
cabin passengers and a crew of 287
persons, had, when leaving Liverpool
on Augt %, the following quantities
of provisions !: 1850 pounds of fresh
beef, 760 pounds corned beef, $500
pounds mutton, $50 pounds lamb, $50
pounds veal, $50 pounds pork. 1000
pounds fresh fish, 600 fowls, 800 chick
ems, 100 ducks, SO geese, 80 turkeys,
200 grouse, Is tons potatoes, 80
hampers vegetables, 220 quarts ice
cream, 1000 quarts milk and 1880
eggs.
In groceries alone there were over
200 different articles, including (for
the round voyage of % days) $50
pounds tea, 1000 pounds coffee, 1900
pounds white sugar, $500 pounds
moist sugar, $50 pounds ~pulverized
sugar, 1900 Iounds cheese, 1000
pounds butter, $500 pounds ham and
1000 pounds bacon.-Boston Globe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
THE INTERSTATE AGRICUL.
TURAL CONVENTION.

The Inauguration of this scheme is
one of the best conceptions Of Cover
nor Gordon and Commissioner Hen
dersen.
No convention or congress of rep
resentative farmers since the war has
resulted in so thorough an investiga-
ton of the causes of depression and
the remedies therefor, as this proposed
convention to meet in this city on the
10th of August next, promises to &C.
complish. The plan Oft is we'll con
ceived. The machinery that is now
being put in motion is we'll calculated
to enlist the best practical minds Of
the cotton states in the effort to in
fuse new life into our tagging rural
industries. The committee on report
and programme is nearly complete,
only two States-Alabama and Mis-
sissippi-being yet unrepresented.
The Governors of those States doubt
less understand the Importance Of
prompt action in the appointment Of
their committeeman, as we'll as the
necessity of selecting at once the
county delegates to represent their
people in the convention. Several
States have already sent in their COM
plete lists of delegates, and the indica-
tons are that the convention will be
one of the largest in point of numbers,
as we'll as ability and influence, that
has assembled in a long time. The
Importance of having every State
fully representa- by her ablest and best
men, is too evident to require argu-
ment. We hope to be able in a short
time to give the full programme of
the convention, az an Indication of
the character and scope Of the investi-
cations that will be undertaken, to
the end that every delegate may come
prepared to enter intelligently and
actively into the discussion of the sub
jects. that will be presented.-Ahanta
Constitution. Is
We thoroughly agree with our
esteemed contemporary in his high
estimate of the important work which
will engage the attention of that con-
vention. as we'll as to his estimate of
the character of those who will con-
stitute it.
We indulge the hope that questions
Of a tangible and practical character
questions in which every farmer in
the ten States is directly interested,
will engage the attention of that body,
and that practical men will be there to
discuss and consider them. We hope
to see it truly and essentially a Farm
ers' Convention, and to that end we
trust that our worthy Governor and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
FLOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMhR.
WINSTON, June 6, 1887. :

Can you give your readers any IN
formation as to whether North Caro-
lima is to be represented in the Inter
State Farmers Convention, to be held
at Atlanta on the 10th of August next?
In the Farmers Mass-meeeing held in
Raleigh on the 26th of January last, a
a resolution was introduced and adopt
ed suggesting such a convention, so
that if the idea did not originate in that
mass-meeting, the -unanimity with
which it was adopted showed that the
farmers of this State were heartily in
favor of it.
This being SO, our State ought to be
we'll and fully represented in that con-
vention, which will be a representative
body, as | understand it, of the ten
States in whose interest it has been
called.
Exactly how the delegates to this
convention are be selected, | do not
know; but [ presume that the Gov
ernor, as Chairman ex~-oficio, and the
Board of Agriculture, will have this
selection, principally, if not altogether,
in their hands. Under the plan of
representation adopted, [ believe each
county in the State will be entitled to
one delegate.
This is to be eminently a convention
of planters and farmers, called for the
especial purpose of discussing matters
in which the agriculturalists of the
Southern States are particularly rep
resented, to, consider the depressions
under which the agricultural industry
struggles, ascertain the causes, as far
as possible, and suggest the remedies
that may be deemed practicable. These
are the matters the farmers desire dis
cussed. This is what this Convention
was called for, and they ought to be
discussed by men identified waM the
farm, BY FARMERS. Agricultural con
ventions have been held heretofore,
ostensibly in the interest of farmers,
in the selection of delegates, to which
little regard was paid to the. fact
whether those selected as delegates
were identified with the farm or not,
the object being, apparently, at least,
more to please or compliment some
friend or person of political or other
influence, than to ecure fitness and
ability for the work in hand. 1t is to
be hoped that the Governor. and Board
Of Agriculture, in the selection of such
delegates as they may appoint, will
avoid this mistake, and remember that
this is to be a turner's convention, to dis
cuss matters in which farmers, as such,
are vitality interested, and that they
will not only confne their appoint,
ments to men identified directly with
the farm, but will select the most in
telligent and best fitted of these, from
each county, as far as they are able.
This is to be no ordinary convention,
and pride of State demands that North
Carolina should be not only fully
loyal, but well represented, by men
who come from the farm and are quail
flied to speak for the farm, as a citizen
of North Carolina and as a farmer. l
trust that we may not be disappointed
in the character of u appointed rep
resentatives. FORSYTH.
- % ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09

Commissioner of Agriculture will use
their best endeavor to secure the at
tendance of a representation @J6armers
from u State. Whey, more than all
others, are interested in the work to
be done, and they r the proper ones
to do it. ~
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1887-11-15
preiie Der 2ln,eieer.

pret1e DER Nn3et9eft.
SsOer 3Ou Der SpaIts per SaRr.. $500
3 Nonate 5 500
ssir iebs Belle grepier, ober beren Raunt, bas
eritemal 10 Gents. bic nd9itenmale Gents.
Seirdtbss unb Gobesan;eisen nit Sprl&
$3.50, obne Spru9 $1.00.
aus,pdrtise an,eissu miifeu uorausbs,ablt uersen.
gn;eiaer fir Yicnics, 0otterien, @liidsIpiele
&C., bic Benz Settle Der tatb. 8ir9e 3umiber, fius
ben feline aufnabme.
Mnsetsen ienoe man fpdteiftns
Wontas @or8en etn.
Job.4rbeiteu aller art prompt uno
billis aussefihrt.
cfitee Der o@asetts":
Gfe Ger 6. uno JopdsStrase.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1887-11-15
EefeSrap9if&e 9epe(&en.

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Sisbsn bsiu9ts Der Bring WiIbsIm ben
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1887-11-15

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ei&eint ieO.n Siennag unb toRet unter
ssraxsss,sslHne fHr bic Der. staai.n uHS CANADA:
SdbrIid d,........sa.5oI Sarbiabrlia ......s1.25
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Sd4Hi&........ss.ooS Salbidbrlid ......s1.sO
@orreiponb.n;en llnb Rittbeilunsen miiiien
ipdteaens bis Jreitas Morseu, wenn iie in Der
nd6ften Rimmer aufnabms finben iollen, eirls
seianbt perben.-griefe obne luterI9rit rpers
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tB Rur fir bic @elber. bic perregiitrirten Yrief
ober Geloanmeiinng tAIoney Order) 9eianbt
werben, ibernebmsu mir bic 8erantwortli6teit.
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man einfad:
"LUXEMBURGER GAZETTE",
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1887-11-15
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2onbon, 10. Gop. Ser Sultan BON
Narotto bat ben franSOfidsn 9sianbten
bersli9 empfansen, unb ii5 CUR 8eaabIuna
elmer Gnti9dbisuns pon 200 Dollars
wesen Der grmor6uus bss Sauptmauus
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-08-15
General News Items.

Stanley and his companions were at
AruwhinI Fails June 18th
An incendfary fire a Evansville, Ind,
destroyed $4,000 worth Of property.
ThIrtY-6ve business houses were burn
I'd 81 Tampa Pa recently Loss $751;
60
In Al election DAY aght in Manchester,
Ia. SIX men were killed and number
wognded-
The population d China i estimated AZ
90. 100 90. = decrease d 5000 in TWEEN
tg-1Fe years
A. Mzrfou, Mass Mrs CIeTeI4Bd zb4n-
dosed = proposed sez-ozth because the
Ehole village tarned out Ia anticipation
4 1zmIly d nfne persons were murder
u near Macon. Ca On Friday night A
son q the mardere5 mza = charged with
tie eriDe-
an IIII1ols sc1ool-tezcher had % pay
$50 damages for having kept = boy sit
tlEg On = chsnk q Ice for tao hOars a. q
pgsIshment-
Tie Dill - prevent the mixing u black
and SgEt@ chlldrea 10 schools passed the
Georgia hga.e- The O1lV FOtes &c opp
ssgiOn we're ~ tBO DegrO EsenDers.
Commission Sp4rks reports that sOme
550o00 acres u land. Os1els1D3y owned
- sse ChEesgo, St Paul. NInnespDll- 4
OGaAz rzlISsgs sEsaaid De tskea from e
o. Ell- groBEd u other Ownership.
TIE Iztesr Bgr&ees .loop, the yoluB-
ter, EDa the Goe5st eap Tor sloDps %
Ss~p0rL- ss8aF10Ner~ .ecO1d. Puritan
third The sehooner yacht f-s4e5em"
sbBs th- Goeles csp Tor schDooers
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-08-15
State News Items.

P T. B2ruum viii pay $4,000 Tor that
Ch2mplsin >ea-Serpeut, dead or alive
The Vermont Uuiversalist grove meet
ings st Queen City PARK are largely at
tended.
The second annual reunion Of the Sd
Regiment will be held 81 St JohnSbury
Wednesday. October p
The annual Vermont state campmeetiug
Of The Seventh Day Adventi>ts viii De
held ~ YergenneS Aug $50.
Judge Wesley and his daughter Anna
are travelling in Switzerland They will
not start for home before September
The bzrn of W. E Center in Grand
Isle Was struck BY lightning the 26th ult-
and burned with twenty tons OF hay. In
Sured
The Vermont department Grand Army
Of the Republic, has increased its mem
5ership two hundred >eventy-rwo since
January 1St-
John c. Fessenden Of Green River,
while moving under an spple-tree July
-. found apples that grew last season
- fresh and sound a. they were last fan.
The Vermont State Agricultural SOcie-
" has received the sun OF 500 "a be
given 10 the exhibitor OF the best herd Of
registered jersey cattle owned in Yer
mont
James morrill,. son Of Senator Morrill,,
/ reported conv4Ie>ceut, but viii De IN
able 70 bear removal from Washington
70 Vermont before the middle OF this
month
Two large barns owned by Isaac Jake
wav II West Haven were struck by light
ming and burned with some farming tools.
a. well 81 : large quantity OF hzY and
/ grain
James Corbine. aged forty, s brakeman
On the Bennington road. was killed near
WaIIingford, - II i supposed, BY falling
from moving freight train He leaves
: widow and three children
Daring : recent thunder storm the
barn q Francis Clark in Richmond was
[ burned and is contents, some fifteen or
twenty tons Of hay and other valuable
/ products being DESTROYED There was no
I insurance
/ Joel Thomas Of Pittsford, over seventy
/ years Of age, claims that he never lode
+ On Z railroad train, though he has lived
I near = railroad al his life. He has al
/ tended every circus that has exhibited in
/ that vicinity FOR forty years past
+ An unknown man Was thrown from 3
railroad bridge 81 S~zntou by train re-
+ Gently and killed He was about twenty
/ years old and had on his person a receipts
| given 70 Thomas Redding for . trunk
marked Thomas Redding, Chicago
i Providence, r L. dispatch says
/ Eugene Harley, aged forty-hve, 3 Yer
+ mont school teacher, was thrown from 2
/ steamer Pilgrim into the sound by a
( Iarch OF : recent night. He was not miss
ri. Dat wz- picked up unhurt an hoal
I4rer 5y the schooner Z NJ Reed BaIti-
more for Providence
Mrs Mary A. Lfvermore will cgme Il
Vermont September Ist for a lecture TIL
Of three weeks Terms, So, expense
F from lasE place and entertainment AM
person wishing 70 engage her for one o.
{ her popular lectures mot necessarily 8poi
temDerzuceJ can do 20 6y applying a
+ once 70 Mr. 3. ? Elmer, Lower Cabot
superintendent Of Lecture WORK for th
WonaDTs Christian Temperance Union 0
4 Vermont
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-08-15

10 D able to ride out and Is now oonsid-
ered cOdvslescent,
John Darling, accompanied b his son
EEereert has gone On $ Journey south for
The heneGs Of Her0ert'> heAlth, who is
suffering from lung trouble But a. he
hz> zlre21Iy had bleeding from the lungs,
It / feSre5 that climate influence in the
land Of sunshine and flowers viii not
much benefit him Mr.. Darling his bur
led one SoR in the past year with oon>ump-
ton and Herbert i his only remaining
child.
Young couple from this town got
married recently and took possession OF
Their flsgre hone The father of the
bride having an idea that they would be
honored By = serenSde, repAired 10 their
residence, determined u take vengeance
on the offenders should they pat in an
appearance He stationed himself in s
favorable position 70 watch the 2pproach
Of tae foe a. &n oldeu time pioneer
might have done The weary hours Of
the night passed slowly sway and no
Seren4derS rewarded his sleepleSS vigil +;
then shoGlderlng his deadly weapon be
returned home
East Hard>~icIx-
De4- J. NJ. Stevens died Thursday,
the 18th inst He had been sick for
nearly two years He has been promi-
ueut in town and church affairs Snd will
De greatly missed by Sll-
Mrs Henry c, wsite from Burliug-
ton i visiting friends in town.
wheelOck-
Milo Burbank has reShingled his mill
Wand Bradley sud wife took 4 trip %
CSnxd& last week--Ch4rle> Rogers and
wife were visiting in Sheffield recently.